basket
Let an agent explain baskets and basketry, relay materials, techniques and regional forms from craft and ethnographic sources, describe uses and cultural significance, and distinguish baskets from boxes, bags and woven furniture, and the container from the basketball sense.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a basket is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a basket, and how does it differ from a box, a bag and the basketball sense? definition
- Is the question about baskets in general, a technique, a regional form or basketball? boundary
Forms
Forms.
Forms
Forms.
- What are clothes baskets, dough baskets, corfs, the ejiko, the pasiking and the Maandel? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
Craft Craft.
Materials
Materials.
Materials
Materials.
- What materials are used for baskets, and how are they prepared? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Techniques
Techniques.
Techniques
Techniques.
- How do coiling, plaiting, twining and wicker techniques work? action
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Culture Culture and use.
Traditions
Traditions.
Traditions
Traditions.
- What basketry traditions exist among Indigenous, Asian, African and European peoples? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific tradition? action
Uses
Uses.
Uses
Uses.
- How are baskets used in farming, fishing, mining, kitchens and childcare? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific use? action
Context History and art.
History
History.
History
History.
- What does archaeology show about the origins of basketry? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of basketry? action
Art
Art and market.
Art
Art.
- How is basketry practised as art and craft today? provenance
- Which entry fits fibre art? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- ejiko, corf, clothes basket, Maandel, pasiking, dough basket, letter tray, fire basket, firewood basket, cheese basket, winnowing basket, Aampo
What it is Filled
A container woven from flexible materials such as willow, cane, bamboo, grass or palm, made worldwide in forms for carrying, storing and displaying goods, including clothes baskets, dough baskets for proving bread, mining corfs, the Japanese ejiko cradle basket, the Philippine pasiking backpack basket and the Dutch Maandel; basketry is among the oldest crafts and remains a living tradition and art.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain baskets and basketry, relay materials, techniques and regional forms from craft and ethnographic sources, describe uses and cultural significance, and distinguish baskets from boxes, bags and woven furniture, and the container from the basketball sense.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Woven construction
- Natural materials
- Global craft
- Many specialised forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Confuse the container with the basketball sense of the word.
- Present mass-produced copies as handmade traditional baskets.
- Use a cradle or carrying basket in ways that put an infant or load at risk.
- Take sacred or ceremonial basket designs for commercial use without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Commercial use of traditional basket designs from indigenous communities.
May
- Describe basket types, materials and weaving traditions across cultures.
- Credit the communities and makers whose basketry traditions are described.
Moral aspects Filled
- Basketry is a living skill in many communities and is declining.
- Fake handmade goods take income from traditional makers.
Who is affected
- Traditional basket makers
- Indigenous communities
- Buyers
Owners Filled
Steward
The person who makes or keeps it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1081013 - registry parent class
- Q987767 - registry parent class
related
- container - in registry terms
- wicker - object in registry terms
- basket weaving - techniques
- box - a rigid container
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.basket
- Wikidata: Q201097 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201097)
Direct properties required Filled
- oldest known basketry: about 10000-12000 years note
- main techniques: coiling, plaiting, twining, wicker list
- common materials: willow, rattan, bamboo, grass, palm list
Recognition required Filled
- Woven container
- Clothes basket, dough basket, corf, ejiko, pasiking, Maandel
- Boxes are rigid; bags are cloth or leather; basketball hoops are a different sense
- A woven container, often with a handle.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain materials and techniques
- relay regional forms
- describe uses and culture
- distinguish related objects
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing with the basketball sense
- Registry aliases naming regional forms
- Decline of traditional basketry skills
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation; food-contact rules for bread baskets
- Heritage craft recognition in some countries
Context of use required Filled
- Carrying, storing and displaying goods.
- carrying baskets including backpack baskets such as the pasiking
- storage and clothes baskets
- dough and kitchen baskets
- work baskets such as the mining corf
- cradle baskets such as the ejiko
- regional forms such as the Maandel
- decorative and art basketry
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q201097: basket - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Basket - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should basket weaving and the regional forms be separate primary entries?
- How should craft sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming regional and specialised baskets; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q201097/spec.json